Join us for the second program in the 2026 Season! The Theater Project will present a script-in-hand performance followed by a lively discussion with the playwright, director, actors, and audience. This program takes place at the Cranford Community Center's fully accessible 110-seat theater.
This program has been made possible by funds from the Union County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Funds benefiting this program have also been provided by the Friends of the Cranford Public Library.
If you need access to a large print program for the show, please email
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Today's play reading is THREE BY ONE: Short plays by Rosemary Parrillo
Sheila and the DMV
Abby agrees to take a new congregant to the DMV to get her New Jersey driver’s license. But when the well-off straight-laced Jersey Shore resident shows up at Sheila’s Atlantic City motel room, she quickly realizes it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Our Man in China
An American adjunct English teacher working in Beijing
applies for a new job through a Chinese employment agency and eventually discovers things are not always what they seem.
The Kids’ Table
It’s Thanksgiving and once again Skip and his siblings are stuck at the Kids’ Table, which wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t all in their 50s. As octogenarian aunts and uncles obliviously feast at the Adult Table in the adjacent dining room, Skip's resentment boils over into a near family rebellion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rosemary Parrillo (she/her) is a New Jersey playwright and journalist. Her work has been performed at festivals and community theaters across the country and in Canada. Her post-9/11 play, The New Normal Trilogy, was a semifinalist for the 2017 Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference. “The Nature of Stars” was a 2024 finalist for the Tennessee Williams One-Act Contest, marking Parrillo’s third finalist placement. And The Waiting Room, was selected Best Play in the 2025 Ritz Theatre Company One-Act festival, in Haddon Township, N.J. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild, New Play Exchange, The Theater Project, The Playwrights’ Center, International Centre for Women Playwrights, and Honor Roll.
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